Re: A good router

From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 09:29:33 -0400

On Sat, 29 May 2004 22:38:25 +1000, BW~Merlin spoketh

>
>Ok maybe I should have said I know a bit more about security then I said
>above but not a lot (depending on what you think is a lot and what is
>not) As for the comment about windows being bad well its just I’m feed
>up with windows as I have spent the past month cleaning people's
>computers of sasser, welcha and blaster worms and trying to explain the
>concept of windows updates to them. I currently run sygate 5.5 free
>version with NAV 2003 with F-Prot for dos as on demand scanner. I also
>use spybot S&D, spywareblaster, IE-SPYAD, HOST files and when I get the
>money ill be getting TDS 4 and Wormgard again (free trial ran out but
>made me want to get them to add more layers of defence) as well I use
>myself (you are the most important security tool you have). I am
>looking for the router to provide additional protection to my home
>network. Most of the above security products stop spyware and related
>junk but I’m looking for some more protection to stop unwanted traffic
>(I keep getting port scanned and it may only be a matter of time before
>one of those scans turns a bit more nasty) and intrusions. I also have
>visited blackvipers website and closed down unneeded processes (on my XP
>computer) such as remote assistance and so on. I think the router is
>the next step in securing my computers but as I said I don’t know much
>about them and I wont be able to administrate it all the time so I need
>something that can be plugged in, configured briefly and left to the
>next time I can get back to it and tightened things up a bit more.
>
>BW~Merlin

Most broadband routers will be like that. You configure them, and let it
go. Only time you need to go back is if you need to allow something in.

If you are concerned about things going out, you'll either need to get a
firewall appliance, or run something on your computer.

As you state, you are the best security tool you have. If that is really
true, then why do you need all those other tools? How would this malware
get on your system if you are careful with the things you download and
install??

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

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